The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-14
CAUGHT UNDER COVER.
THE MURDERER OF TINY CHARL-
TON CAPTURED AT LAST.

He is Located by the Dead Mans
Friend and Found by the Police
Covered Up in Bed-The Story of the
Brutal Crime-How a Church Fair
Wound Up in a Fight.
One of the perpetrators of the most fiend-
ish and diabolical crime that has been COM
mitted in Chatham county for years was
captured yesterday. The murder was COM
mitted about three miles out on the Ogee-
chez road on Saturday night, Aug. 20. At
this place there is a small settlement of col
ored people, most of the men working on the
adjacent plantations. They seldom have
trouble among themselves, but the city peo-
pie go out there often, filed up with bad
whisky, and fights generally result The
murder arose from such case. A party
of city men went out to assist at a church
festival, held there Saturday night. Bad
whisky and bad characters are hard COM
bination, and the church party were soon in
the minority.
RUMPUS REIGNS.
A sort of free fight was started by two of
the women, and clubs, knives and razors
were trumps. Tiny Charlton attempted to
stop the fight, but got blow or two for his
palms. Finally the women were separated,
but the bad feeling aroused was kept alive
all the evening. Whisky was plentiful and
quarrels were numerous. Finally when
they broke up and went out on the road to
go home, Charlton was knocked down by
Tom Green, and Berry Cook stabbed him in
the throat with small pen-knife., Charl-
tons wife had then just appeared on the
scene and attempted to rescue him and get
him safely home. He was then very weak
from the effects of the blow and the stab,
and she had to support him all the way
When about half way to his house he was
again assaulted by Jim Cook and William
Taylor.
A RAZoR'S DEADLY WORK.
Charlton's head was resting over on his
wife's shoulder, and Cook, drawing a razor,
drew it from back of his neck clear around
till the blade struck the jawbone, almost
entirely severing the head from the body
Charlton's wife screamed for help, and the
men then ran off across the fields. Charlton
was carried into the house, but he died
in a very few minutes. Since then
nothing has been seen of the four men
implicated in the brutal affair They
disappeared, but it was rumored that they
were hiding in the neighborhood, and would
be surrendered as soon as a reward was
offered. Officers went out to look for them,
but never succeeded in finding them. Charl-
ton had friend named Butler, who lives in
Brownsville, however, who knew the men,
and who has been watching for them to get
chance to deliver them up.
CAPTURED IN BED
Last night Jim Cook came up from
Darien, and went to a house on Margaret
and West Boundary streets. Butler saw
and recognized him, and went off at once to
find a policeman He met Officer Neid-
linger, and told him that he had located
Cook, and could catch him Neidlinger
called Officer Masters to assist him. and the
three proceeded to the house where Cook
was. Masters and Butler remained
on the outside, while Neidlinger
went in to search for his man.
At first he could not find him, and he began
to fear that the murderer had given him
the slip when he noticed bed that looked
as if il was occupied. He went over to it
and started to raise the covers, but found
they were held down. He gave them
a jerk, and when they came
off they revealed Cook lying there
chagrined at the failure of his plan to con-
ceal himself. He was then placed under
arrest and taken to the barracks, where he
was locked upon charge of murder Cook
will say nothing about the aft air more than
to deny that he had anything to do with it.